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"Ali!"  
 
She had just hit up  
in the train toilet  
now sleeping head on knee  
sat opposite me  
as her girlfriends call her name  
 
"Ali....!"  
 
 
Seventeen years  
old, this black princess  
lost in her own mind  
en route to Auxerre  
wasting herself on my charm  
 
"Ali, Ali!"  
 
 
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Skin pores and arm hair  
alive to the moment  
despite her distraction  
perhaps wondering in a dream  
what happens tonight


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